Democratic Wiretaps: Whatever It Takes
Nov. 24, 2009 Jobless Rate for Young Black Men: 34.5% Washington Post: Tough Economy Has Hit 16-to-24-Year-Old Black Men Especially Hard This story was written by V. Dion Haynes. These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy. As a young black man, Spriggs belongs to a group that has been hit much harder than any other by unemployment. These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy. As a young black man, Spriggs belongs to a group that has been hit much harder than any other by unemployment. Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland Excerpts: Full article V. Dion Haynes Washington Post POWERLINE The CIA Report: What Does It Say? August 24, 2009 Posted by John at 6:24 PM Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed a special prosecutor to look into criminal charges against CIA employees who allegedly exceeded legal guidelines in interrogating terrorist detainees. Holder said the appointment was based in part on a May 2004 report of the CIA's Inspector General, which was made public for the first time today, in redacted form. The Associated Press describes the Inspector General's report breathlessly: Excerpts: The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted. ... Seeking information about possible further attacks, interrogators threatened one detainee with a gun and a power drill and tried to frighten another with a mock execution of another prisoner. ... Obama has said interrogators would not face charges if they followed legal guidelines, but the report by the CIA's inspector general said they went too far--even beyond what was authorized under Justice Department legal memos that have since been withdrawn and discredited. Different Promotions Each Week This Week 7% Off Examine Delicious Home Style Dinners Under "Our Menus" Full article John Power Line ABC NEWS Intelligence Report: Pelosi Briefed on Use of Interrogation Tactics in Sept. ’02 May 07, 2009 6:02 PM Rick Klein reports: Full article Rick Klein ABC News Excerpts: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah in September 2002, according to a report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence’s office and obtained by ABC News. The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques. The report details a Sept. 4, 2002 meeting between intelligence officials and Pelosi, then-House intelligence committee chairman Porter Goss, and two aides. At the time, Pelosi was the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee. HUMAN EVENTS Panic Time for Pelosi by Jed Babbin 05/01/2009 Full article Jed Babbin Human Events Excerpts: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a bad week. Caught between her own involvement in the CIA interrogations now condemned as torture and her party’s inquisitions, Pelosi floundered. Her fear and frustration have apparently given way to panic after word reached her of the CIA’s reaction to the damage she, President Obama and other Democrats have done to the spy agency in the last three months. Pelosi -- as I wrote earlier in the week -- was one of the few members of Congress briefed in detail on the harsh interrogation methods and who could have stopped them but didn’t. Pelosi first said that she wasn’t briefed about waterboarding. Then she sort of admitted she had, inserting that the CIA only said that they might do it, not that they were going to do it. Which could have been plagiarized from John Kerry’s 2004 circular explanation of his vote for the war in Iraq. As badly as that hurt Pelosi, what apparently pushed her into a panic was the feedback she and other Democrats are getting from the CIA. Pelosi learned that her actions, and those of President Obama and other Democrats over the past ninety days have so damaged CIA morale that the agency’s ability to function could be in danger. INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Belated Security Thursday July 10, 2008 Full article IBD Excerpts: War On Terror: After keeping the homeland vulnerable for months, the Democratic Congress finally restored surveillance powers against terrorists. The supposedly "failed" Bush presidency wins big again. The extraordinary nature of the White House victory this week in passing the overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is unlikely to be fully appreciated this election year. Some forget that when the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance program was revealed in late 2005 by The New York Times, it was seen as yet another death knell for George W. Bush.  Custom Search Are Democratic Wiretaps on U.S. soil, legal, without a court order, but not those of Republicans? This was the lead question in a Washington Times editorial when this controversy first arose. The article goes on to point out that "Every president, Democrat or Republican, has exercised this authority since the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, (FISA), became law in October 1978. But it appears to be deemed problematical only for President Bush." Those wiretaps are said to have caught Iyman Faris, a naturalized U.S. citizen who wanted to bomb the Brooklyn Bridge". Jimmy Carter, using Democratic-Wiretaps, without court order, waited just seven months after the signing of FISA, to issue the order to use it. Bill Clinton then used "warrantless searches" and his Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick said" that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes". Gorelick goes on to say "The Department of Justice believes -- and the case law supports -- that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes and that the president may, as he has done, delegate this authority to the attorney general." Still party leaders go on daily with their gutter politics. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid even bragged several months back, that he had blocked the latest attempt to improve the Patriot Act.Will Democrats ever get it? When will the safety of Americans replace the lust to regain the power they once had. 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